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When we really sit back with a smile on our face is when we run into a situation we can understand, where the facts are ascertainable and clear, and the course of action obvious.

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Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters.

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I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp.

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If you buy the things you don't need, you will soon be selling the things that you need.

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Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money

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But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound the negotiated purchases of fine businesses at sensible prices. Imagine the cost to us, then, if we had let a fear of unknowns cause us to defer or alter the deployment of capital. Indeed, we have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

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... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

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I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were "performing".

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Is management rational?

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The plan itself is opportunism. There is no plan before that.

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I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.

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Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill

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I know that Congress will do the right thing.

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I mean, in terms of alternatives, some people have suggested for example that why don't we - why isn't America doing what Berkshire Hathaway is doing? Why isn't that a better deal for America?

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It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.

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We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

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During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.

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You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.

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Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

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Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result, even if you buy it cheap. If you're in a wonderful business for a long time, even if you pay a little too much going in, you're going to get a wonderful result if you stay in a long time.

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